Claire Anderson-Wheeler short story “Vernissage” is about a boy named Alex who is the narrator, and we read the story from his point of view. The story tells us how Alex’s parents’ relationship affects their child’s process of growing up.
Alex, who is the main character, lives with his parents. He is facing a dilemma whether he wants to remain a child or whether he should grow up.
Alex seems like any other boy of his age, when the text starts by describing him getting out of school and into his mother’s car. They have a quick conversation about Alex’s school day.
When they get home a little later his mother makes him a banana sandwich. Alex eats the sandwich, and gets confused. He is not sure if he is becoming too old for banana sandwiches as they remind him of baby food ”being soft and sweet that made him think of baby food” (P.3 L.49).
Alex is using his imagination very much, which makes him childish. He talks to his mother about getting the earthworms instead of the beetles. He later pronounces vernissage “Vernie Sadge” like a man and making fun of it.
Sometimes it sounds as if Alex is 2 persons in one mind, the child and the adult. The first example of the child inside of him is when his mother and he are in the car talking about the vernissage. At first he has no trouble with the pronunciation of the word, but suddenly he thinks of vernissage as a man dancing with his mother and pronounces it differently “Is the new dress so as you look pretty for Vernie Sadge?” (P.2 L.42)
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